Hi, I recently rewatched the original Jurassic Park and have had John Hammond's hat on my mind for weeks now.

I really liked it, and it just so happens that I am getting out on my summer vacation in a few weeks here in Europe, and I know I'll spend several days out in the sun, so this is as good a time as any to get myself a new hat.

I did read a few threads on the RPF, but they went into too much details for me, I don't need an exact match for the hat from the film, but something close to it.

It should also be available in Europe from a reputable reseller so I can take delivery before my vacation.

I currently plan on pairing it with bright, loose fitting linnen trousers and a loose button down shirt, please feel free yo give me some more advice there, I am sadly overweight if that is relevant.

I'll add some photos of the character for your reference:

I have an Acebeam Pokelit 2AA, a brilliant little light, my first true EDC light.

It uses a custom Lithium battery called ARC14100P-160A which has a USB-C charging circuit built into the top of the battery.

This week the battery died, I noted that the light didn't turn on with the battery, but with 2x 2AA NMIH it works.

When I connect it to charge, the charge LED just lights up green and the battery pulls no current (tested with my USB power meter), I tried to test the voltage of the battery with a multimeter, but it shows as 0 volts.

To me, all of this indicate an issue with the battery's protection circuit, as I believe even a discharged lithium battery should show some voltage.

Has anyone else seen this issue?

What weirds me out about this is that the charge LED just shows as fully charged when I connect it...

Is it trickle charging at that point, do I plug it in and leave it?

My ISP is one of the largest in Sweden, Telenor, and I can't even reach their website on mobile: telenor.se

Anyway, I am heading out to get some dinner.

Companies keep pushing AI as something positive, in increasingly stupid ways.

From the SAAB JAS-39 Gripen E fighter supposedly having AI, to the Sony A7R VI having AI auto focus, and other weird applications.

As a resonably logical person who works in IT, I can see the Gripen E having the space, energy and general computing resources to run a local AI model, but the Sony A7R VI?

I am mashing X hard on that one!

How much of AI bullshit is just machine learning and just older tech we have had for a while under different names?

Don't get me wrong, I hate AI with a passion, I am not trying to excuse it's use, I am trying to figure out what devices use AI branding as a marketing gimmick while using less bad crap, and what devices actually could use AI.

As an IT guy and a hobby photographer I feel like AI is far too much A while inhibiting the I of the user.

This is my car, my first car, I got it when I got my license at 36, three years ago.

I was very fortunate enough to have been able to get a slightly used example without financing.

205bhp with the petrol engine and electric motor running combined, it is heavy though, 1.6 tonnes...

It is the perfect car for me, I am not a car guy, I am an IT guy and hobby photographer who also enjoy driving.

Fuel economy highly depends on your driving, but on a long drive on the motorway, I tend to set it to hybrid mode so it uses both battery and petrol to get a good mix of performance and economy, and usually ends up at 3.5L/100km

It comes with the standard speaker system, it sounds perfectly fine, personally with my bad hearing, it sounds excellent.

I have driven it a LOT, I love finding small roads in the countryside and seeing where they go, I don't really focus on fast and hard driving.

That being said, I don't skimp on tires, just got a brand new set of excellent Pirellis as my old summer tires, Bridgestones, were worn out.

I have been in a small wildlife accident, I hit a hare or badger last summer, that was fun...

The car is mostly great, with two big downsides.

1. Too many controls in the infotainment!
2. Awkward touch buttons to control demisting!

Other than that, I love it, it is a brilliant car!

For those who have never heard about SEAT and Leon, think of it as a Spanish WV Golf.

SEAT as a brand is being retired and replaced with their sport brand, Cupra, not a super fan of that as it seems more of a lifestyle brand and less like a car brand.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble on about my car.

Gotta keep up to date with my vaccines.

A few weeks ago, I got another booster of my TBE vaccine.

I also need to get a Shingles shot.

(less) Fun fact, in the past Shingles was also called "helveteseld" in Swedish, it translates to "hell's fire" in English.

I am an IT guy in my late 30s, I have no deep insight into AI, I am just a guy with general technical knowledge and who enjoy philosophy.

It is by no means anything but my own personal thoughts and reflections on AI and it's impact on general society.

I write this from a Scandinavian perspective, I am a Swede after all.

1. AI is here to stay, once the concept proved viable, there was no way to put the genie back in the lamp.
2. AI will move from how it is being pushed right now, as a productivity booster, to a knowledge booster.
3. The general reasoning skills of the general public will take a sharp nosedive.
4. The value of actual human intellectual work will at first decline, but as AI becomes more common, the value will increase as AI capabilities stagnates and becomes generic.
5. AI capabilities will stagnate, as more and more data is shoved into the models, the responses will become more and more generic, the more data you have, the less any piece of new data matters.
6. AI companies is getting ready for the squeeze, give it a few years, once AI dependence has set in, AI companies will start raising their prices, putting the squeeze on their customers, and if your entire workföow depends on a specific AI, you are shit out of luck.

What are my general opinion of AI these days?

I think it is an excellent reference engine for coding, which should only be used if you understand the general language you are coding in.

I sometimes work in web design, and asking AI to tell me a specific method to set a specific parameter just as I would have searched for it earlier is great, anything beyond that is highly dangerous, you risk loosing track of the code.

Looking at how other's use AI scares me, especially when it comes to companies and government work.

They just shove classified data straight into free AI models with zero insight on how it is being used beyond the task at hand.

They take answers at face value, without any skepticism or verifying the data.

People seem to forget about reasoning and logic when it comes to AI.

TL;DR: AI is a good at some tasks, but dangerous as hell in others.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/61942327

Abracadabra was a children's tv show on Swedish state television between 1997 and 2001, it followed Doris the cow and Gösta the badger on random adventures.

Ahlgrens Bilar is a marshmallow type sweet, shaped as classic cars with a mild fruit flavor, there are made in three colors, white, pink and green, they are hugely popular across all ages in Sweden.

This picture shows Doris visiting the factory where Ahlgrens Bilar was made.

This photo was taken by a staff member at the factory, and was later donated to the regional museum, sadly the name of the specific photographer has been lost to time.

It is licensed as CC-BY-SA.

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I remember seeing this program on TV, it was aimed at younger kids than me.